Earlier this week, Barbara Walters decided to use her platform on The View to share her fascinating opinion that Woody Allen can't have molested Dylan Farrow because she's seen him be nice to his new children. On Thursday, she implied that it's been an open secret around ABC that Elizabeth Vargas is an alcoholic. And… »2/07/14 2:20pm 2/07/14 2:20pm

We've always heard more about male alcoholics than female ones — It's only recently that this study of wine being abused by Gen X women came out, and I could have told you that years ago. And I'm not counting the myriad pieces on college girls binge drinking, because the drinking is framed as almost incidental.… »7/20/13 2:30pm 7/20/13 2:30pm

Here's a real bummer of a generational phenomena that will have you longing for another trend piece on the directionless selfishness of Millennials: British Generation X women — those born in the 1970's and currently in their 30's and 40's — are drinking themselves to death. With wine. »7/19/13 5:30pm 7/19/13 5:30pm

The first season or two of Mad Men made drinking all day, womanizing all night, and chain smoking seem really glamorous. But Don Draper doesn't wear his unhealthy lifestyle as handsomely in 1968 as he did in 1960. Now pasty, puffy, and sweaty, his bloodshot eyes are the windows to someone who is dead inside. It did… »6/24/13 4:10pm 6/24/13 4:10pm

By virtue of the fact that it’s an essay in the Saturday Wall Street Journal (a mixed bag of insightful cultural commentary, impossibly palatial real estate listings, and thinly-veiled conservative ravings about America’s social decadence), and because its second paragraph begins with the vaguely-judgmental sentence,… »6/22/13 1:30pm 6/22/13 1:30pm

A new study of wealthy British neighborhoods has revealed a trend that most Stephen Sondheim fans already take for granted: wealthy women who “lunch” tend to booze up more in all their leisure time than their working- or even middle-class counterparts. To the sociology mobile! »6/02/13 6:00pm 6/02/13 6:00pm

Kinda like Angelina Jolie, New York City Council speaker and Democratic mayoral candidate Christine Quinn, took to today's New York Times to come forward with a personal struggle. Quinn, who is the first openly gay and female mayoral candidate in New York, spoke openly about her battle with bulimia and drinking as a… »5/14/13 6:45pm 5/14/13 6:45pm

Two (kinda dubious) UK studies have claimed to have determined a link between weight, excessive drinking and chronic liver disease — not exactly a fascinating new discovery to associate liver disease with drinking, and the way weight's thrown into it seems a little half-assed. »4/27/13 4:30pm 4/27/13 4:30pm

If you go out for afterwork drinks with your friends tonight, please please please be careful about the amount that you imbibe. Not because of your health or drunk driving or anything like that, but because your drinking is tearing your marriage apart. Oh, you're not married? See what I mean? Then the hooch has… »4/03/13 12:40pm 4/03/13 12:40pm

Science, always looking for new ways to help you forget your painful past, has recently discovered that drinking alcohol mixed with diet soda will get you drunk faster than drinking it with other types of mixers. Sure, there's something a bit less tragically poetic about staring into a glass of whisky and Diet Coke,… »2/06/13 1:00pm 2/06/13 1:00pm

This is how it begins. He asks me to stand before him in my lace underwear, high heels, hose and bra. He sits in a chair and watches closely as I disrobe, making approving noises, even winking to put me at ease. "Turn around please," he says and then, "Yes, right there. Stop there." Even though we've been married for… »11/18/12 11:00am 11/18/12 11:00am

If fear is a great motivator, then hopefully this PSA for children's charity Fragile Childhood will get its share of alcoholic parents to stop drinking. The ad, created by Finnish agency Euro RSCG Helsinki, asks "How do our childen see us when we've been drinking?" and shows several terrified children being haunted… »9/14/12 3:40pm 9/14/12 3:40pm

The long-term effects of alcohol abuse have always been linked to white matter reduction in the brain, which carries side effects that include flat affect and memory problems, but a new study has now determined that the healing process during recovery is separated along gendered lines. »8/11/12 5:00pm 8/11/12 5:00pm